Martin Lewis

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About Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis OBE, Money Saving Expert, is an award-winning campaigning TV and radio presenter, newspaper columnist, author and, according to Google, the most searched-for British man.

An ultra-specialised journalist who focuses on cutting bills without cutting back, he founded the UK’s biggest consumer help website www.moneysavingexpert.com in 2003 for £100 and he remains its Executive Chair. It now has over 15 million monthly users, 100 staff and 12 million have signed up to receive the Martin's Money Tips email.

His prime-time ITV programme - The Martin Lewis Money Show regularly tops the ratings for factual programmes and a series of Live programmes also now accompany the main series. Martin is resident expert on This Morning, Good Morning Britain and BBC Radio 5's Lunch Money Martin. He also currently has columns in the FT, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Mirror and has appeared on BBC One’s Question Time.

In campaigning work Martin’s been credited as being the big-gob in chief behind the campaign to reclaim bank charges (£1bn back) and PPI reclaiming (up to £10bn likely to have been paid out) and ran a successful large scale campaign to get financial education on the English national curriculum.

In 2016 Martin founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute Charity, which he chairs. This along with work via his charity fund with Citizens Advice, The Trussell Trust, the Personal Finance Education Group and the MSE Charity, led Martin to be awarded the Beacon Fellowship for Trailblazing philanthropy.

Outside the money world, he appears in Countdown’s (C4) dictionary corner, won £150,000 on Celebrity Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (ITV) and is also Celebrity Mastermind (BBC1) champion.

Martin was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2014 for work on consumer rights and charity.

Presenter News Items

A special Martin Lewis programme on Tuesday 23rd October, Ten Things Your Kids Need to Know. Martin’s message on the importance of financial education and how to be successful are all core to the programme on ITV at 9pm.

Martin Lewis presents a LIVE summer special of The Martin Lewis Money Show, offering advice on the best currency rates and answering questions about the pitfalls of travel insurance and the confusion that can arise from hiring a car abroad. Tuesday 12th June at 8pm on ITV.

Martin Lewis presents the final episode for the series of The Martin Lewis Money Show. The series concludes with exploring issues of council tax and looking at how to receive compensation for delayed trains ahead of the week’s wintery forecast. Tune in on Monday 26th February at 8pm on ITV.